Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1306 mails)

[Basil Chupin <blchupin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 31/01/12 23:48, zep wrote:
> On 1/31/2012 12:44 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:
> > On 31/01/12 13:10, zep wrote:
> > > On 1/30/2012 7:44 PM, Basil Chupin wrote:
> >  From where I am sitting, this is as useless as the encryption which I am
> > now using on my /home directory. It doesn't matter how many partitions
> > and layers of wotnots you have - they will only work on the CURRENT
> > system and partitions. Copy files to another medium and.....anyone can
> > read them.
> I don't quite understand this; with the model I mentioned before, you'd
> have all your data stored in a file which is then mounted as a
> partition. if you wanted to back up the files, the cleanest and easiest
> way would be to unmount the partition, attach the external media, copy
> the entire large file out to external media, remount and everything's done.

I am not sure if we are on the same wavelength but when my home 
directory was encrypted during installation I ended with a separate 
partition which is specifically identified on my system as another 
device and it shows up in Dolphin, eg, as "362GB Encrypted Container".

> The only way that this encryption would work is to encrypt each and
> every FILE with some GPG, or similar, key.
>         No, I don't think that's the way it'd be done.   At least you'd have to
> go to great lengths to implement it this way.

BC

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